German supplier of manufacturing systems and manufacturing support
services for the automotive industry Duerr AG said it won a contract
worth around $150 million from Hyundai for the delivery of a complete
paint shop.
The new turnkey paint shop that is going to be installed at
Montgomery, Alabama will have the capacity to paint different models at
a total production rate of up to 300,000 bodies per year. Start of
production will be in the summer of 2004, full-capacity production is
scheduled to begin in January 2005.
The scope of supply includes modern process and conveyor systems,
the paint supply system, spray booths and ovens, including air
purification, integrated software solutions for the control and
supervisory control system plus production and plant monitoring system
as well as the building. Environmentally sustainable water-borne paints
are used in the innovative RoDip rotation dip pretreatment and
electrocoating system and in base coat application.
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